Iranian airliner with 66 people on board crashes Sun Feb 18, 2018 07:42AM
Tehran (KNA) - An Iranian airliner with 66 people on board, which was flying from the capital Tehran to the southwestern city of Yasuj, has crashed near the central city of Semirom, authorities said on Sunday.
The ATR turboprop aircraft belonging to Iran Aseman Airlines had taken off from the capital on Sunday morning but it disappeared off radar later.
Pir-Hossein Koulivand, the head of Iran's Emergency Medical Services, said the plane had crashed near Semirom in the central Isfahan province, only 185.2 kilometers (113 miles) before reaching Yasuj, the Islamic Republic of Iran News Network reported.
Officials said the plane had crashed into Mount Dena in bad weather and that the site of the crash was hard to reach.
Source: Press TV